For scientific papers on AGW, record happenings in the Arctic and the Greenland, Himalayan and Antarctic icesheets. Also weatherstorms and higher than average rainfalls and other extreme weather events.

Worldwide coal demand has suffered its biggest-ever fall as the global revolution under way in energy eats into the market.

Unfortunately, can’t access the link. Might have to —ugh!—buy a national shit sheet.

But renewable energy is now cheaper than coal fired energy and this will only accelerate as, e.g. more wide–ocean wind farms are built: wind is stronger and more constant on the ocean than on the sea. SA needs to stop faffing about and ask for tenders for windfarms to be installed in the Great Australian Bight and on Backstairs Passage.

Eventually renewable energy will be so much cheaper than coal its use will decline precipitously. Rootop solar + battery has already sounded the death knell of coal fired electricity generation. Windfarms on the oceans will drop demand for coal precipitously. In the face of cost differential there is no way coal is going to resume its dominance.

Developments like this give me hope catastrophic AGW can be averted. Economics will win out but it better do so a lot quicker!